Hi Everyone-I am just posting my recent growth spurt in case it helps someone out.Basically it was a family isssue that I thought I had resolved but guess what I did not and my symtoms started like for a day or 2 the thought that I was short of breath which I just ignored, then by day 6 after the incident away goes the scary thoughts and obssessing about health and thinking about death the whole bit plus anger,guilt and the tension in the back of the head. All this time I was journalling and I was trying so hard to find a better way to think and then just to add a bit more fuel to the fire my dear friend had to put her dog down and he was only 7 years so tonite for some reason I just had to talk to my sister-in-law and I peeled a few more layers off that I had forgot about and finally 1 week later I am able to look at this family issue in a better way and it feels so right so to all I just want to say stay determined even when it feels you are loosing cause eventually you are going to win. Ironically the issue had to do with one of my secondary gains and the saying life is not fair at times and neither are people is so true. Anyhow I am Ok now and I did it. I am finding that with each growth spurt I just get stronger and I am learning my body symtoms that hit and each time it is slightly different but the real difference now is that because of the program I know the difference. Time now for me to get some rest and relax as I am sure there is going be more growth spurts but hey that is how we get stronger and continue to learn more and more about ourselves. Timber

Thank you for sharing this and congrats for getting over it so well. I recently went through a growth spurt I guess (like I metioned in the post above I haven't gotten to this lesson yet). It hit me out of the blue...I just felt weird. You know sometimes you just feel weird (non anxiety related) then I started obsessing on it until I was in a full blown anxiety attack. Thought for sure I was going to die...didn't want to fall asleep because I was afraid I wouldnt wake up. Ran to the chat room but no one was there which was a good thing as we all need to learn how to deal with these things on our own. I eventually calmed myself down and went to sleep...next day was a better day. Turned out to be just a touch of a stomach bug...and I drove myself nuts over nothing as usual haha.

Its nice to know that every gets these spurts too. Because I don't know about you but I felt like "oh no not again im as bad as I used to be" but like I told pete above although its hard, we have to realize we aren't that person we were before hand...and we will get over it.

You must be so proud of yourself to get through your spurt Congrats again!

Tammy

HI! IM GOING THRU A GROWTH SPURT AND SOMETIMES I REALLY SCARE MYSELF. I WILL BE OUT DRIVING AND I WORRY THAT WHAT IF I PANIC I JUST STOP IN MY TRAKS AND CANT MOVE. THEN I WORRY AM I GOING TO BE AS BAD AS BEFORE OR WORSE. I TELL MYSELF THAT I HAVE MY SKILLS AND I CAN NEVER GO BACK TO BEING THAT WAY OR WORSE. BUT WHY DONT I BELIEVE IT WHEN I AM IN A PANIC. AND HOW COULD I HAVE GONE EIGHT YEARS DOING SO WELL AND NOW IM HAVING TO LEARN THIS ALL OVER AGAIN. I DONT GET IT. ANY THOUGHTS ON ALL THIS?
LC

Hi-First I feel when we hit the panic mode it is very difficult to calm down and I have come to the conclusion that because of my personality type and the anxiety disorder that whenever I hit stress in my life the potential is there for my anxiety disorder to surface big time so threw my many growth spurts one thing for sure I am learning is my stress triggers.The family situation I spoke of earlier I really thought I had it all sorted out so I was caught off guard big time.For the most part I am fine. Once that cycle of scary thoughts starts taking off I found that I just gotta float with them and keep telling myself I am ok, breathe and distract myself. I seem to have all these little stressors around me right now so I have really got to watch the thoughts and some days it is so hard but I know this little rough patch is going to pass.Anyhow thanks TL7 & LC for replying as it really helps so much to share. Timber